‘They wanted me to fight, and I knew I had toleave, or die.’ My translator, a former English teacher from Syria, wasexplaining how, after the army knocked on his door one day, he had fled thecountry and moved more than 2,000 miles to Liverpool. This was 2018, the bloodycivil war was raging.
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